Most Dangerous Object: Hitachi Spline-Shank Rotary Hammer

Photo: Daniel Salo

It’s a chore to stand up and crane your neck whenever you want to see what’s going on in the world outside your cubicle. But thanks to this mini jackhammer, we don’t have that problem anymore. It’s designed to pulverize concrete walls, so making a peephole in a particleboard partition is easy. And there are plenty of other uses for a handheld device that pumps out 5.9 foot-pounds of impact. Need to punch a hole in a wall for a DSL line? Done. Door to the Gadget Lab stuck? Not anymore it’s not. Vending machine in the hall refusing to dispense Mentos? Stop… hammer time.